# List of massacres in Greece

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Greece.

## Ancient Greece

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Massacre of Argos | 494 BC | Argos | 6,000 | Sparta | Argive survivors of the defeat at Sepeia burned alive in the sacred grove of Argos |
| Olynthus Massacre | 479 BC | Olynthus | All inhabitants killed | Persian Empire | |
| Drabeskos massacre | 465 BC | Draviskos | Athenian colonists | Thracians | Athenian colonists slain by Thracians. |
| Massacre of Plataea | 431 BC | Plataea | 150 | Plataea | 150 Theban POWs executed |
| Fall of Plataea | 427 BC | Plataea | 200 | Sparta | 200 Plataean and Athenian POWs executed |
| First massacre of Corcyran oligarchs | 427 BC | Corcyra | Unknown | Corcyran popular party | Corcyran oligarchs executed by the popular party |
| Mytilenean revolt | 427 BC | Mytilene | 1,000 | Athens | Ringleaders of the rebellion executed |
| Helot Massacre | 425 BC | Peloponnese | 2,000 | Sparta | 2,000 Helot slaves executed by Sparta |
| Second massacre of Corcyran oligarchs | 425 BC | Corcyra | Unknown | Corcyran popular party | Corcyran oligarchs executed by the popular party |
| Destruction of Scione | 421 BC | Scione | All of Scione's men killed | Athens | Men killed, women and children enslaved |
| Massacre of Hysiae | 417 BC | Hysiae | All male citizens of Hysiae killed | Sparta | |
| Destruction of Melos | 416 BC | Milos | All Melian men killed | Athens | Women and children enslaved. |
| Massacre of Mycalessus | 413 BC | Mycalessus | All inhabitants of Mycalessus killed | Thracian mercenaries of Athens | |
| Corcyra Massacre | 361 BC | Corcyra | Unknown | Athens | Many Corcyrans killed |
| Battle of Thebes | December 335 BC | Thebes | 6,000 | Macedonian Army | The city was completely destroyed and 30,000 were enslaved |
| Argos Massacre | 315 BC | Argos | 500 | Macedonian Army | 500 Argive senators burned alive |
| Orchomenus Massacre | 313 BC | Orchomenus | Unknown | Oligarchs supported by Macedon | |
| Messene Massacre | 213 BC | Messene | 200 | Demagogues supported by Macedon | 200 magistrates and their supporters killed |
| Maroneia Massacre | 184 BC | Maroneia | Unknown | Macedonian Army | Many Maronites killed |
| Aetolian massacre | 167 BC | Aetolia | 550 | Roman Army | 550 Aetolian leaders killed by Roman soldiers. |
| Destruction of Corinth | 146 BC | Corinth | All Corinthian men killed | Roman Army | Complete destruction of the city. Population partly massacred, partly enslaved. |
| Asiatic Vespers | 88 BC | Asia (Roman province) | 80,000–150,000 | Kingdom of Pontus led by Mithridates VI | Romans and Italians killed. Served as a casus belli for the First Mithridatic War. |
| Sack of Athens | 86 BC | Athens | Unknown | Roman Army | Population partly massacred and large parts of the city burned down. |

## Roman or Byzantine Empire

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Massacre of Thessalonica | April 390 | Thessalonica | 7,000 | Late Roman army | After orders of Emperor Theodosius I |
| N/A | 1171 | Constantinople, Genoese quarter | Unknown | Venetians | Genoese victims. This was not the first time Venetian merchants had gotten out of hand. Given much freedom and power in their trade with the Empire, they had misused this freedom. In response, Emperor Manuel I cracked down on the Venetian merchants and this led to the Byzantine-Venetian war. |
| Massacre of the Latins | April 1182 | Constantinople | Unknown | Usurper Andronikos Komnenos and a mob of his Greek, Eastern Christian supporters | Massacre of Latins/Roman Catholics |
| Sack of Thessalonica (1185) | 9–24 August 1185 | Thessalonica | 7,000 | Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily | |
| Sack of Constantinople (1204) Fourth Crusade | 1204 | Constantinople | Unknown | Catholics/Crusaders | Orthodox Christians, Constantinopolitans |
| Venetian-Genoese War | 1296 | Constantinople | Unknown | Genoese | Venetian civilian victims |

## Ottoman Greece

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Ottoman conquest of Lesbos | 15 September 1461 | Lesbos | 300 | Ottoman Army | 300 Italian soldiers massacred by Ottoman Army under Mehmed II. |
| Peloponnese massacres | March 1770 | Peloponnese, mainly Tripolitsa | 3,000-10,000 (plus 20,000 refugees) | Albanian irregulars | After the failure of Orlov Revolt. |
| Preveza massacre | October 1798 | Preveza | Unknown | Albanian Muslims | Complete destruction, devastation of the city. The biographer of Ali Pasha, Spyros Aravantinos, states that before the massacre, the population of Preveza was 16,000, while according to the traveler Henry Holland who visited the town in 1812 – fourteen years after the event – there were only 4,000 souls. |

## Greek War of Independence (1821–1832)

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Constantinople massacre | April–July 1821 | Occurred in Constantinople, but contemporary pogrom activities spread in parts of present-day Greece (Kos, Rhodes) | unknown | Ottoman government | |
| Navarino massacre | 19 August 1821 | Pylos | 3,000 | Greek irregular forces | |
| Massacre of Samothrace | 1 September 1821 | Samothrace | 1,000 | Ottoman army | Complete destruction, devastation of the island. |
| Tripolitsa massacre | 23 September 1821 | Tripolis | 6,000-15,000 | Greek irregular forces | |
| Chios massacre | March 1822 | Chios | 20,000–52,000 | Ottoman government | |
| Naousa massacre | 13 April 1822 | Naousa | 2,000 | Ottoman army | |
| Kasos massacre | 7 June 1824 | Kasos | 500 | Ottoman-Egyptian army | Some 2000 women and children taken and sold into slavery |
| Destruction of Psara | July 1824 | Psara | 7,000 | Ottoman army | |
| Third Siege of Messolonghi | April 1826 | Messolonghi | 8,000 | Ottoman/Egyptian army | Messolonghi received the honorary title of Hiera Polis (Sacred City) by the Greek state. |

## First Balkan War

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Servia massacre | 10 October 1912 | Servia, Greece | 117 | Ottoman Army | |

## Second Balkan War

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Doxato Massacre | 30 June 1913 | Doxato | 500 | Turkish irregulars | |
| Kilkis Massacre | 4 July 1913 | Kilkis | 74 | | |

## World War II

| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
| Missiria executions | 23 and 24 June 1941 | Crete | 80+ | German paratroopers | |
| Massacre of Kondomari | 2 June 1941 | Crete | 60 | German paratroopers | |
| Alikianos executions | 2 June 1941 and 1 August 1941 | Western Crete | 180+ | German paratroopers | |
| Razing of Kandanos | 3 June 1941 | Western Crete | 180 | German Army troops | |
| Doxato massacre | 28–29 September 1941 | Doxato | 200+ | Bulgarian Royal Army | |
| Domenikon massacre | 16–17 February 1943 | Domenikon | 150 | Italian Royal Army | |
| Feneos executions | March 1943-June 1944 | Feneos | no less than 1,071 | mainly OPLA | The local monastery functioned as a concentration camp. |
| Viannos massacres | 14–16 September 1943 | Viannos and Ierapetra regions | 500+ | Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller leading the 65th Regiment of the 22nd Luftlande Infanterie-Division | |
| Massacre of the Acqui Division | 21 September 1943 | Kefalonia, Greece | 5,000 | German Army troops | Dramatized in the film Captain Corelli's Mandolin. |
| Kommeno massacre | 16 August 1943 | Kommeno | 317 | German Army troops | |
| Paramythia executions | 19–29 September 1943 | Paramythia | 201 | Cham Albanian paramilitary/German Army troops | |
| Lyngiades massacre | 3 October 1943 | Ligiades | 83 | German Army troops | |
| Kallikratis executions | 8 October 1943 | Kallikratis | 30+ | Jagdkommando Schubert/German Army troops | |
| Massacre of Kalavryta | 13 December 1943 | Kalavryta | 693 | German Army troops | |
| Drakeia massacre | 18 December 1943 | Drakeia, Mount Pelion | 115 | 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division | |
| 5/42 Evzone Regiment dissolution | 17 April 1944 | Phocis, Central Greece | 200+ | ELAS troops | Colonel Dimitrios Psarros also executed. |
| Pyrgoi (formerly Katranitsa) massacre | 23 to 24 April 1944 | Pyrgoi | 327 | German Army troops | |
| Executions of Kaisariani | 1 May 1944 | Kaisariani | 200 | German Army troops | |
| Distomo massacre | 10 June 1944 | Distomo | 218 | German SS troops | |
| Massacre of Pikermi | 21 July 1944 | Pikermi | 54 | German Army troops | |
| Massacres of Mousiotitsa | 25 July 1943 | Mousiotitsa | 153 | German Army troops | |
| Executions of Kokkinia | 17 August 1944 | Kokkinia | 300+ | German Army troops/Security Battalions | |
| Skourvoula executions | 14 August 1944 | Skourvoula, Crete | 36+ | German Army troops | |
| Holocaust of Kedros | 22 August 1944 | Amari Valley | 164 | German Army troops | |
| Malathyros executions | 28 August 1944 | Malathyros, Crete | 61 | German Army troops | |
| The Massacre of Chortiatis | 2 September 1944 | Chortiatis | 146 | German Army troops | Perpetrated by Friedrich Schubert |
| Executions of Meligalas | 16 September 1944 | Meligalas | c.1,000 | ELAS troops | |
| Aigaleo massacre | 29 September 1944 | Aigaleo | 65 official number, estimates up to 150 | German Army troops | |
| Executions of ULEN/Peristeri | December 1944 (Dekemvriana) | Athens | 3,000+ (unknown exactly) | OPLA, other minor communist groups | |